Surgical device for relief of hfmorrhoids and similar affections



' ,(No Model.)

L.OHAMBERLAIN.

SURGICAL DEVICE FOR RELIEF OF HEMORRHOIDS AND SIMILAR AFFEOTIONS.

No. 305,146. Patented Sept. 16, 1884.

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UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

LEVIS CHAMBERLAIN, OF TABBOROUGH, NOR-TH CAROLINA.

SURGICAL DEVICE FOR RELIEF OF HEMORRHOIDS AND SIMILAR AFFECTIONS.

EPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 305,146, dated September 16, 1884.

Application filed May 13, 1884. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern new and Improved Surgical Device for Relief of Hemorrhoids and Similar Affections, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is the relief and cure of hemorrhoids, prolapsus anus, and protruding piles; and it consists in a device for use at stool to prevent protrusion, as hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a plan View of the device. Fig. 2 is a lengthwise and Fig. 3 a cross section of the same.

The instrument A is to be made of wood, earthenware, or other suitable material, andis to be used upon or take the place of the seat of a closet. The block of material may be oval, as

shown, or other shape, and has lugs a a for ing or in an ovoid-concave form. The size will be proportioned to the individual, and the depth of the concave such as to receive the 0 anus.

In use the device has the effect to compress the parts of the fundament, so that they cannot relax, nor the rectum distend sufficiently to allow the parts to protrude. The torture 5 u 7 specified.

, LEWIS CHAMBERLAIN. Vitnesses:

E. V. RAWLs,

XVILLIAM A. HART. 

